Tina Lear

Tina Lear is a writer and composer/lyricist living in New York. Tricycle Magazine (a Buddhist review) has published several of her articles. Her poems have appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Second Chance Lit, the Pinyon Review, and Germ Magazine. You can find Tina at www.tinalear.com, She lives with her wife on Long Island, with their love doctor, Ruby (Yorkie).

“Is This Thing Loaded?” “Junk Mail” and “New(s) Headlines”

It’s late, and I’m doing the last dishes of the day. I rinse them, swing the door down, pull out the lower rack, and then I sigh. Every time.

Someone designed this machine with a lot of thought. There is a right way to load it.